African Agriculture Barometer
The FARM Foundation, in partnership with Afdi and the PAFO, has created a tool to serve African farmers' organizations and, more generally, public and private decision-makers for analyze food sovereignty and to guide agricultural policies.
Sector by sector, The Barometer offers a reliable source of strategic analysis to understand agricultural interdependencies and guide more equitable partnerships with Africa.
Our objectives
Why the Barometer? To address a critical need
- The health, geopolitical and climate crises of recent years have highlighted the vulnerability of food systems, while reviving debates around food sovereignty at a time when there is a strong need for investment.
- Faced with this situation, the representative organizations African producers have expressed the need for access to reliable data, updated and comparable data to guide their strategy and strengthen the continent's food sovereignty.
- To address this, the FARM Foundation and its partners have created a innovative analysis tool sectoral to decipher the dependencies and dynamics of local production, sector by sector.
- The Barometers address the Sustainable Development Goals: SDGs 1, 2, 8, 9, 12, 13
Partners
Afdi (French Farmers and International Development) is an international solidarity association created by French agricultural professional organizations that supports family farms in developing countries, enabling producers to earn a decent living and address food security challenges. Present in 21 countries in Africa, Asia, and the Eastern Caribbean, Afdi conducts strategic partnerships with nearly 70 farmers' organizations.
The Pan-African Farmers' Organization (PAFO) represents more than 80 million African farmers. Founded in 2010 under the auspices of the African Union, it federates five regional networks of farmers' organizations, bringing together nearly 73 national organizations in more than 48 countries. It aims to strengthen the role of farmers in African agricultural policies and to promote a strong and inclusive African agriculture.
Who is the Barometer aimed at?
The Barometer is designed as a decision-making tool for three target audiences, with a concrete benefit for each: 
Methodology: the power of analysis
The Barometer is based on a rigorous and visual approach, reproduced for each sector studied.
- Robust data : cross-referencing international databases (FAOSTAT, UN Comtrade, World Bank), sectoral sources and scientific bibliography, supplemented by an analysis of investment flows and economic actors.
- Six themes of analysis common to all editions : production, trade, consumption, investment, public policy, future challenges.
- Educational visual tools : bilingual maps, sector infographics, dashboards, forward-looking analyses.
Each edition of the Barometer is delivered through a full range of deliverables: a bilingual dashboard available in PDF and soon to be linked to an interactive online platform, educational content (videos, articles) tracing the dynamics of flows and dependencies of the sector studied, bilingual visual tools to map dependencies and public policies by country, as well as a series of presentations at major agricultural and advocacy events in France and internationally.
Download our Barometers
2025 – Dairy Value Chain Barometer
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Essential to nutrition, producers' incomes, and the vitality of rural areas, African dairy sectors are at the crossroads of three major challenges:
- dependence on imports;
- local production potential;
- and aspirations for agri-food self-sufficiency.
This first edition also aims to be a call to action : to make milk a lever of sovereignty, social justice and prosperity for the African continent.
2026 – Fertilizer Barometer
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After milk, the Barometer goes back to the source of all sectors: soil fertility.
By 2050, the African population will have almost doubled. It will therefore be necessary to produce more on the same land, without depleting it. However, the fertility of African soils has been declining for sixty years, due to a lack of sufficient and balanced inputs.
Fertilizers highlight three issues :
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- soil degradation;
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- a dual dependence on global markets;
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- the gap between booming African production and farmers who are still under-supplied.
The subject may seem technical, but the issue is eminently political: No food sovereignty can be built on depleted soils.
This second edition also aims to be a call for commitment : to make soil fertility a lever for food sovereignty, resilience and prosperity for the African continent.
Support the Barometer: shedding light on the sovereignty of tomorrow
To ensure the sustainability of this tool and to extend it to new strategic sectors, the FARM Foundation and its partners are seeking partners to finance future editions.
- Next thematic priorities : seeds, cereals (rice, wheat), plant protection products
If you would like to get involved in this project and contribute to its development, please do not hesitate to contact us: thibaut.soyez@fondation-farm.org